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(Singh), Varsha Jha and Mini Chandran. "Reading a retelling: Mahabharata in the graphic novel form." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2017): 1–18. Added by: joachim (8/5/18, 8:19 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/5/18, 8:22 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1355823 BibTeX citation key: Singh2017a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Adi Parva", "Mahabharata", Adaptation, India, Intermediality, Literature, Patil. Amruta Creators: (Singh), Chandran Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
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This article explores the literary and the extra-literary modes of reading a graphic-novel retelling of the Mahabharata. Applying the theories of Scott McCloud and Neil Cohn, this article attempts to critically ‘read’ and discuss this work as a ‘Retelling’. Graphic novels bear the marks of ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ elements: words and images, which are often seen as non-mingling, mutually exclusive categories. Through this analytical enterprise, I would like to make a case for why and how the two modes of expression, the visual and the verbal, are never quite wholly different and how by way of literalising the metaphor of ‘retelling’ this work establishes ‘showing’ and ‘telling’ as inextricably enmeshed processes. Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012) is a graphic novel, published by Harper Collins, which attempts to ‘retell’ the first book of the Mahabharata, verbo-visually. Through beautifully thought-out visual metaphors, Patil’s Parva, a model work of art, effortlessly eases and irons out all the simplifications that tend to limit works of art into categories such as literary and non-literary, visual and verbal.
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